The week in TV: The Patient; Slow Horses; Simon Schama’s History of Now; The Traitors – review

‘Several wisecracking galaxies away from his comic roles’: Steve Carell plays an abducted therapist in The Patient. Suzanne Tenner/FX Photograph: Suzanne Tenner/FX

The Patient | Disney+
Slow Horses | Apple TV+
Simon Schama’s History of Now (BBC Two) | iPlayer
The Traitors (BBC One) | iPlayer

If you’ve ever wanted fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan to guest star in In Treatment, then Disney+’s The Patient is the US thriller for you. It opens with psychiatrist Alan (Steve Carell) waking up in a dingy basement to find himself imprisoned, chained up, and a urine bottle, bedpan, toothpaste and toilet roll on the bedside table. He has to keep calm and deal with kidnapper/patient Sam (Domhnall Gleeson), who demands help: “I have a compulsion to kill people.”